 I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. |
| Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure. |
| In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. |
| Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century. |
| Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. |
| Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. |
| The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. |
| The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. |
| I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. |
| This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country. |
| Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature. |
| I am optimistic about the future of music. |
| The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. |
| I think we're in a very low point of music right now. |
| As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other. |
| Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. |
| I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures. |
| Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years. |
| Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today. |
| The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. |
